NEW ZEALAND PRINCIPALS FEDERATION

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NEW ZEALAND PRINCIPALS FEDERATION

• Judy Hanna
• National President
• 2007

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MISSION

• The Federation will provide leadership,
• advocacy and support for principals in their
• professional role.

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The Federations Core Beliefs

• Advocacy for principals should always be
  consistent with the best interests of all
  children
• Empowering principals in their leadership role is
  critical to the quality of education in New
  Zealand

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Core Beliefs

• Maintaining a professional organisation is
  important for advancing educational aims in New
  Zealand schools.
• There should be equity of access to quality
  lifelong learning for all students and teachers.
  
• This requires adequate State funded resourcing,
  co-ordinated social policy, and highly skilled
  professionals.

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School Management Team

• To develop, progress and monitor
  issues/initiatives
• - Curriculum
• - Assessment
• - Student Management Systems
• - NEMP
• - SPARC (sport recreation)
• - Education Outside The Classroom
• - Literacy
• - Numeracy
• - Financial Planning Resourcing

• Julie Hepburn
• Jacqui Duncan
• Paul Drummond

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Current Future DirectionsPolicy Constitution
Team

• To develop and review NZPF policies, and to
  formulate and advocate amendments intended to
  improve or update the constitution
• To develop relationships with political parties
  and politicians
• Develop new initiatives to generate debate on
  the future direction for NZPF as a professional
  organisation

• Paddy Ford
• Geoff Lovegrove
• Barry Hambleton

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Professional Leadership Team

• To develop, progress and monitor
  issues/initiatives to do with professional
  leadership including
• Professional Development
• Leadspace PEN
• Appointments / Appraisals
• Professional Standards for Principals
• Career Pathways
• Aspiring Leaders AP / DP
• Kiwi Leadership Framework
• Leadership knowledge, skills and attributes

• Liz Millar
• Marion Fitchett
• Peter Simpson
• David Ellery

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New Initiatives / Issues Principal Support /
Hauora Team

• To filter new / emerging issues as they arise
  that dont necessarily fit one of the other
  teams, or can be handled quickly.
• To develop, progress and monitor issues /
  initiatives to do with Principal Support / Hauora
  including
• - Helpline
• - Legal Benefits
• - Special Needs
• - Sudents at Risk
• - Rural / Remote
• - Workload
• - Compliance Reduction

• Ernie Buutveld
• Pat Newman
• Colleen Murray
• Peter Witana

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2007

• ICP Convention, Auckland, April 2-5
• Celebrating Education in NZ.
• Leading Learning May 21 -25

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Membership Benefits

• Helpline
• Email tree
• Principal Magazine
• Opportunity to join Legal Benefits scheme
• ICP member
• Representation through Executive on all Reference
  groups

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PATHWAYS TO THE FUTURE

• NZPF CONSULTATION DOCUMENT

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• All NZers have a right to an educational system
  that provides equity of educational opportunities
  in a culturally diverse environment. We believe
  that our national state funded education must
  deliver equity of access to quality life long
  education and should encompass the 4 competencies
  for the 21st century -learning,
  citizenship, relating to people and managing
  situations.

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Teacher Capability

• New Zealand schools will be staffed by highly
  skilled teachers who are committed to student
  learning and educational achievement.

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Resourcing

• New Zealand schools will receive adequate
  resourcing to achieve agreed educational aims and
  outcomes.

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Principals Professional Development

• New Zealand principals will have the opportunity
  to access high quality professional development
  which enables them to be effective school
  leaders.

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Social Policy/Responsibility

• Children will live in safe, nurturing
  environments that maximise educational
  opportunity and motivation to learn.

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Curriculum

• That New Zealand schools deliver an authentic
  curriculum that reflects UNESCOs four pillars,
  learning to know, learning to do, learning to
  live together and learning to be. 

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Hauora..ongoing

• Moot 2006
• Focus on successful strategies being used in
  regions to support principals
• Reminder that local support and local solutions
  are very effective. Use local knowledge/expertise/
  networks.
• Its ok to ask for help .

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Priorities for 2007

• Increase in the operations grant that recognises
  the real cost of running a school.
• Recognition that all schools need competent
  office managers
• Focus on Leadership Developments

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Priorities

• Reduction in compliances
• Help with behaviourally disturbed children
• Principal Wellbeing
• Recognition that school leaders do make a
  difference in creating effective schools

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Here are some of the issues as identified by
principals

• Shortage of quality teachers
• Increasing compliance
• Lack of resourcing
• Students disruptive behaviour
• Increased diversity among students.

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Rules For Head Teachers (circa 1848)

• They must have good morals.
• They must have sober habits.
• They must attend Sunday church services.
• They will be inspected annually.
• Their students will be tested annually
• Women must leave upon marriage.

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• Professional Leadership
• Shared Vision and Goals
• A Learning Environment
• Concentration on Teaching and Learning
• High Expectations
• Positive Reinforcement
• Monitoring Progress
• Pupil Rights and Responsibilities
• Purposeful teaching
• A Learning organisation
• Home-School partnership
• Changing Our Schools Stoll/Fink

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Self management

• Schools autonomy has allowed them to be creative
  and successful
• Creativity and autonomy creates optimism which
  creates exciting teaching

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Principals

• Superheroes !!

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• What actually is our job.?
• Its all about children
• What do we want for the children in our schools?
  

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Transformational leadership..involve
s people

• Visionpassion, energy, inspiring
• Finding the way forwardleading the charge
• Clear set of values, provides a role model
• Challenges assumptions..takes risks
• Acts as mentor / coach.respects individual
  contributions

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Key.

• Relationships
• Communication

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If you are a builder you join material together
to make a house. If you are a plumber you fix
leaks. If you are a hairdresser you improve on
nature, temporarily If you are a doctor you fix
bits. But if you are a School Leader you create
the future.
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Thank you

• For the work you are doing as Association
  Presidents and as principals in our New Zealand
  schools.

Judy